"Artist and co-founder of CultureStrike, Favianna Rodriguez, created the “Migration is Beautiful” butterfly image. “The butterfly symbol was not my idea. Immigrant rights activists have seen the butterfly as a symbol of fluid and peaceful migration for generations. To me, the monarch butterfly represents the dignity and resilience of migrants, and the right that all living beings have to move freely. I believe that we shouldn’t allow our identity to be defined only by our suffering, nor by the actions that others have taken to devalue our families and our labor — rather, let us celebrate our beauty, pride, and resilience in the face of inequality and injustice.”

Ambiverts have introverted and extroverted traits, but neither trait is dominant. As a result, they have more balanced, or nuanced, personalities. They aren’t the folks yammering your ear off. Nor are they the totally silent ones happily ensconced in the corner.

Ambiverts move between being social or being solitary, speaking up or listening carefully with greater ease than either extroverts or introverts. “It is like they’re bilingual,” says Daniel Pink, a business book author and co-host of Crowd Control, a TV series on human behavior, who has studied ambiversion. “They have a wider range of skills and can connect with a wider range of people in the same way someone who speaks English and Spanish can.”

Me me! This is who I really am....neither extreme. I need the social contact, lots of friends and family nearby, but usually prefer to retreat after a good dose of interaction. Indeed I can paint alone for hours or read a good book. My sense is that ambivert fits a lot of personalities...

Ambiverts have introverted and extroverted traits, but neither trait is dominant. As a result, they have more balanced, or nuanced, personalities. They aren’t the folks yammering your ear off. Nor are they the totally silent ones happily ensconced in the corner.

Ambiverts move between being social or being solitary, speaking up or listening carefully with greater ease than either extroverts or introverts. “It is like they’re bilingual,” saysDaniel Pink, a business book author and co-host of Crowd Control, a TV series on human behavior, who has studied ambiversion. “They have a wider range of skills and can connect with a wider range of people in the same way someone who speaks English and Spanish can.”

Entertainment Weekly reports the two, along with Jay Brown, James Lassiter, and Aaron Kaplan are executive producing the untitled mini series. Till was a 14 year-old from Chicago sent to spend the summer in Mississippi. One evening, Till was kidnapped from his bedroom and savagely beaten by white men because he whistled at a white woman. At Till’s funeral, his mother Mamie had an open casket to showcase the brutality of her son’s death.

This book traces the history and diversity of Latin@ people in the US and shows readers the roots of racism and how it continues today. Like Still I Rise, Latino USA presents multiple perspectives within and among Latin@ communities about historical and contemporary issues, demonstrating how Latin@s aren't a homogeneous group and encouraging critical thinking.

“White People” (2015) is an MTV documentary about young White Americans. Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning, Filipino American journalist, travels the country, talking to White Millennials about – being White.

In the mid-1990s Mary Bucholtz spent hours in conversation with students at a racially diverse high school in northern California. During her interviews, she asked each student a seemingly straightforward question. She asked them “for the record” to identify themselves according to their age, sex/gender, grade and race/ethnicity.

One of her persistent experiences blew my mind.

Almost every white student could not or would not answer Bucholtz’s question in a straightforward way. On everything else they did fine. But when it came to race/ethnicity, their responses ranged from the ironic (exemplified by a student who said, “I’m the whiteness of the white boys” in a fake British accent; responses Buchold characterizes as mock-celebrations of “affiliation with whiteness”), to those “feigning ignorance” (respondents qualifying “I’m white” with phrases like “I guess,” or “I don’t know” or odd elaborations like “From, uh, outward signs”).

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how problematic “white” is in a racially supremacist society

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if one names one’s white identity without demonstrating a reluctance about that identity one risks being perceived as somehow endorsing racism

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white racial identity and white supremacy are so bound up with each other in the U.S. that these young people get silly, snarky or tongue-tied because–forced to own “white”–they are trying desperately to create a gap between these two things.

ALL CHILDREN LIVES MATTER NO MATTER THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN! BUT NOT ALL ARE TREATED THE SAME IN COMMUNITIES, CITIES, STATES AND COUNTRIES BUT EVEN THEN THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT TREAT ALL CHILDREN EQUAL AS A MATTER OF FACT IN THIS DAY AND TIME THE POOR WHITE INDIVIDUALS ARE TREATED WORST THAN THE RICH BLACK AND ADDED THEIR CAN BE NO DISPUTE ON HOW THE WHITE CHILDREN ARE PROTECTED FROM BEING DEEMED CRIMINALS AND THEY ARE SUCH AS BEING FOUND NOT GUILTY OF CRIMES BECAUSE OF "AFFLUENZA" HOW EVER THE WORD MAY BE MISSPELLED BUT TO HAVE A CRIME COMMIT SUCH AS MOTOR VEHICLE HOMOCIDE BUT THEN THE PERSON YOUNG WHITE RICH MALE IS FOUND NOT GUILTY BECAUSE OF AFFLUENZA HE WAS TO RICH TO HAVE KNOWN WHAT HE DID WAS A CRIME. I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR A BLACK PERSON OR PERSON OF COLOR WITH THE WHO HAS WALKED FROM COMMITTING A CRIME BECAUSE OF ALLUENZA, THEY WERE TO RICH TO KNOW THEY WAS COMMITTING A CRIME AND NOW THAT SUCH A GOVERNMENT DECISION HAS BEEN PUT IN PLACE AND USED IN THE COURT SYSYTEM WHY IS THERE NO POORITIS WHICH WOULD SAY THE PERSON AS TO POOR TO KNOW THEY WAS COMMITTING A CRIME ALSO. WHY IS THERE ONLY A QUICK FIX RESOLVE FOR THOSE WITH RICHES BUT THEN TO THE POOR NEVER GET SAME DOOR OPEN AND YES THE COLOR OF YOUR SKIN AND TH DOLLARS IN YOUR FAMILY OR YOUR POCKET DOES MATTER WHEN IT COMES TO THE GOVERNMENT COURTS, WELFARE SYSTEM,PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND THEIR GOVERNING OFFICIALS AND GOV. BODIES, HOUSING CHOICE, AND SO MUCH MORE. I ASK A SIMPLE QUESTION WHITE OR NOT WOULD YOU SUPPORT THE CHOICE OF A POOR PERSON NOT BEING CONVICTED OF A CRIME YOU A KNOW THE PERSON DID COMMIT BECAUSE HE OR SHE HAS "POORITIS" THEY ARE JUST TO POOR TO KNOW THEY WERE COMMITTING A CRIME? AND IF NOT WHY IS IT THAT AFFLUENZA IS EXCEPTED BEING A PERSON BEING TO RICH TO KNOW THAT THEIR ACTIONS WAS A CRIME WHEN HE,SHE, AND/OR THEY DID IT EVEN TO MURDER WITH A MORE PROFESSIONAL/AFFLUENT NAME. FAILING ANY CHILD IS A TRAGEDY BUT HOW ARE THEY BEING FAILED BECAUSE SAYING TO A PERSON ITS OK FOR YOU TO TAKE ANOTHER LIFE BECAUSE YOU ARE TO RICH TO KNOW IT WAS A CRIME THEREFORE YOU ARE NOT ACCOUNTABLE FOR YOUR CRIMINAL ACTIONS , THIS IS THE SLAVE MASTER MANTALITY 20TH CENTURY STYLE. IF NOT WHERE IS THE SLAVE/POOR AND NEEDED EQUAL ESCAPE GOAT WILL THERE BE "POORITIS" COMING SOON AT A COURT ROOM NEAR YOU!?! WOULD YOU EVEN ASK FOR IT AND SUPPORT IT BECOMING SO GOVERNMENT STYLE!?! COLOR DOES MATTER AND WHERE IT DOESNT THE DOLLAR BILL TAKES UP THE SLACK! SOMEIN THE SYSYTEM OF DOING THINGS ONLY SEE GREEN SHING SHING! LET THEM COUNT THE WAYS HELP CAN BE PROVIDED IF YOU HAVE IT AND IF NOT YOU GET WHAT THE POOR GET THE RUN AROUND FOR YEARS AT A TIME BUT THEN TO IF POORITIS WAS IN PLACE GREEN WOULD NOLONGER BE THE FLAVOR OF COLOR AND THE CHING CHING STING WOULD BE TAKEN RICH HAS ALLUENZA AND THE POOR HAS POORITIS THEN LETS LOOK AND SEE WHICH COLOR REALLY MATTERS!! BECAUSE MONEY STILL TALK!! BUT THE HAVE NOT MONEY ARE SILENCED BY MAN BUT NOT BY GOD JUST WAIT AND SEE BECAUSE GOD SAID SUFFER NOT THE LITTLE CHILDREN, HE NEVER SAID BLACK , WHITE,, RED, GREEN OR ANY OTHER COLOR! IT TOOK MAN TO DO THE SEPERATION THING AND HEN DONE AS USUAL MAN SAID I CAN GAIN BY DOING THIS SO LETS DO THIS AND NAME IT THIS OR THAT! ONE LESS AND THE OTHER GREATER BUT I WAS SIN THAT SEPERATED MAN FROM GOD AND EACH OTHER NOT THE COLOR OF SKIN BUT ALL CHILDREN MATTER TO GOD WHY NOT HIS EARTHLY VESSELS/PEOPLE!?!

Pikey is a slang term, which may be pejorative when so intended, used mainly in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales to refer to people who are of the Traveller Community, a lower-class person, regarded as coarse or disreputable. -Wikipedia

In his first visit to his father’s country since he became president, Barack Obama made his rounds with extended family, addressed economic development and announced more than $1 billion in investments to promote entrepreneurship at Nairobi’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit.

He kicked off the two-day visit with the latter, making a point to announce that half of the $1 billion from government and private companies would benefit both young children and women entrepreneurs.

A Dallas immigration lawyer known for vigorous defense of immigrants will become a senior advisor to the nation’s top cop on immigration enforcement.

Mary Elizabeth Cedillo-Pereira, 44, will join the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which is headed by former U.S. Attorney in Dallas Sarah Saldaña.

Cedillo-Pereira, a Dallas native, is well-known in the immigration bar for championing initiatives aimed at young immigrants who call themselves “dreamers” and educating families about the 2012 program that now defers certain deportations for those brought here as children.

The state of Texas leads litigation suing the federal government over 2014 expansion of the program–yet-another example of the conflictive view many in the U.S. take toward illegal immigration.

Cedillo-Pereira is a 1999 graduate of Southern Methodist University School of Law. Saldaña also graduated from SMU law school, in 1984 and served as U.S. attorney for the northern district of Texas based in Dallas. Both are daughters of construction workers.

For their work securing a landmark $14 million verdict for five immigrant workers, in one of the largest labor trafficking cases ever brought in the United States, the team behind David v. Signal International have been named the 2015 Public Justice Trial Lawyers of the Year.

Cultural appropriation is when you take something from another culture over the objections of that culture. It is cultural theft. It is especially common when racists borrow “cool stuff” from cultures whose people they look down on.

It is that thing where if Black people do something, like twerking or wearing cornrows, it is looked down on as “ghetto” or “hood” or “unprofessional”, but when White people do the very same thing, it is suddenly admired as “cool” or “edgy” or “epic”.

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Community Village Sites's insight:

Thank you Abagond! You have given me the vocabulary I have been looking for! Many people don't understand the difference between appropriating in a mocking way vs. partaking and assimilating in a respectful way.

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